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The Third Way: Free Market Medicine

Posted on December 20, 2014 by OCTS1

(OCTS Original Commentary) Republicans of various stripes have been pushing a number of comprehensive alternatives to Obamacare (universal tax credits, etc.). While it is tempting to say that anything would be better than the miscreant ACA, we don’t want our … Continue reading →

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SHOP Flop – Small Businesses Flee Obamacare’s Early Enslavement Period

Posted on November 26, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: a) Small businesses stayed away from Obamacare’s SHOP program’s enrollment in droves, avoiding the government’s new phony ‘market’.  b) Isn’t it stunning (no, scary) that now, five months later, these federal Pinocchios still won’t (or can’t) tell us how … Continue reading →

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Rate Shock? Try Rate EXPLOSION

Posted on November 4, 2014 by OCTS4

Obamacare’s “benefits” raising insurance plan costs Comment: all this extra stuff isn’t free, folks.  Even if you get the government welfare subsidies, someone pays that.  Even with no subsidy, if your premium went down, it’s because lots more people are … Continue reading →

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Deductible Shock Stuns Obamacare Buyers

Posted on October 19, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: Obamacare takes Americans’ money by forcing all Americans to buy things they don’t want, leaving many Americans unable to buy the care they need. That’s an unavoidable result: Obamacare, adding electronic paperwork, bureaucrats, and middlemen, was the worst possible … Continue reading →

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Trouble in Paradise, Maryland edition

Posted on September 2, 2014 by OCTS4

“Maryland spent millions on the [Obamacare] exchange — much of it federal money — but the site crashed on its first day of operation last fall and suffered technical problems for months. State officials, who have since cut ties with … Continue reading →

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Fed Surveys: Obamacare Has Employers Cutting Jobs, Hours, Outsourcing, Raising Prices

Posted on August 27, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: an absolutely devastating, real-world indictment of the unAffordable unCaring Act of 2010. “In a Philadelphia Fed survey of regional manufacturers out Thursday, 18% said they employ fewer workers due to the Affordable Care Act than they would in its … Continue reading →

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Rate Shock: NY Non-Profit Files For 15.2% Rate Hike

Posted on August 25, 2014 by OCTS4

You Can’t Keep Your Premium Either Comment: We all know you can’t keep your doctor or your plan, and, except for a few lucky ones, you won’t be saving anything, much less $2,500.  Now the 3% of Americans forced into … Continue reading →

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#RateShock – Study: Average Obamacare Hike is 49 percent

Posted on July 25, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: All the suffering we’ve seen so far has come from only about 5 percent of America–those who buy their own individual policies.  Delays in the employer provisions have hidden the impacts from most Americans for a couple more years–individual … Continue reading →

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Help A Worker, Owe IRS a $36,500 Penalty, Each

Posted on May 28, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: Your new master, the IRS, has decided there’s a penalty for trying to help your workers with their over-priced unaffordable Obamacare exchange insurance–$100 per person per day, $36,500 per year. “WASHINGTON — Many employers had thought they could shift … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Signups: Eighty Percent Moochers

Posted on April 1, 2014 by OCTS4

Comment: Obamacare divides America into moochers and losers. Subsidies are for moochers. If you’re not getting one you’re a loser, paying for those who aren’t. Question: if it’s “affordable,” why do eighty percent need subsidies? “Monday is the deadline to … Continue reading →

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